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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2005

1987

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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.

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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