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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime 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 multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Oracle

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Mireo

Teradata

Initial release

2011

2017

2020

2005

Current release

23.3, December 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

RDF schemas

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

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

replication via a shared file system

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

with Hadoop integration

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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