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

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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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebolt.io

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

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Teradata

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Yandex

Initial release

2020

2005

1998

2023

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Ubuntu

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

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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