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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. StarRocks 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2020

2005

Current release

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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