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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2005

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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