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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore 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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Oracle

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2011

2010

2013

2005

Current release

24.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

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

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

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

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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