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DBMS > EXASOL vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperExasolRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSingleStore Inc.TeradataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20001993201320051987
Current release3.4-128.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesR packagesyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EXASOLOpenQM infoalso called QMSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTeradata AsterTransbase
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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