DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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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

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.stardog.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.stardog.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Oracle

Mireo

Stardog-Union

Teradata

Initial release

2011

2020

2010

2005

2017

Current release

23.3, December 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

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

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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