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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Newts vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2014

2005

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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