DBMS > Databend vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Teradata Aster

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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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.datomic.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.datomic.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Databend Labs

Cognitect

Google

Teradata

Initial release

2021

2012

2014

2005

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

R packages

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

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

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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