DBMS > HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Mireo

Teradata

Initial release

2001

2020

2005

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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