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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Teradata Aster

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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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.79
Rank	#129	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

MonetDB BV

Teradata

Initial release

2004

2005

Current release

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

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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Specific characteristics

Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

Scalable architecture - vertical data organization and in-memory optimization guarantee...
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Typical application scenarios

Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

Numascale , Spinque , SecurActive , CHS , NOZHUP
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Licensing and pricing models

Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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