DBMS > Firebolt vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster vs. TimesTen

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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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

SiteWhere

Teradata

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2020

2010

2005

1998

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

Multi-source replication
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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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