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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

opentsdb.net

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Teradata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2004

2011

2005

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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.

none

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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