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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml 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

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Esgyn

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2009

2015

2005

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

with Hadoop integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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