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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Realm vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

realm.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

realm.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Mobiland AG

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2014

2005

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

R packages

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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