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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2013

2009

2005

1987

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

Erlang

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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