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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

ravendb.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2015

2005

2018

Current release

5.4, July 2022

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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 query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Journaling Streams

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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