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System Properties Comparison Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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Name

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

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2018

2014

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

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.

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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