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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sequoiadb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2005

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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