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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster vs. VoltDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Teradata

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2017

1993

2005

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Teradata Aster gets graph database, HDFS-compatible file store
8 October 2013, ZDNet

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