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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb 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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

2002

2019

2011

2005

Current release

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

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

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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