DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. Typesense

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

typesense.org

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Teradata

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2005

2015

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

HP Open VMS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

R packages

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
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 using RAFT

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

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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