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System Properties Comparison SurrealDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph vs. Yanza

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

surrealdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

yanza.com

Technical documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

SurrealDB Ltd

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

2022

2005

2009

2015

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

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

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Groovy
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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 authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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