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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB 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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

machbase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

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

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Machbase

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

2018

2005

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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