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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Splice Machine 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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.70
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#239	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Website

postgis.net

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Splice Machine

Teradata

Initial release

2005

2014

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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