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DBMS > MarkLogic vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.marklogic.compostgis.netquasar.aiwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.compostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.quasardbSADAS s.r.l.Teradata
Initial release20012005200920062005
Current release11.0, December 20223.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92yesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsnonoR packages
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesnoyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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