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Teradata Aster

A massively parallel analytics database whose SQL-GR engine, added in Aster 6, runs vertex-oriented graph algorithms in bulk-synchronous parallel steps and invokes them from SQL alongside SQL-MapReduce functions. Its engines were folded into Teradata Vantage in 2018.

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First released
October 2013
License
Proprietary

Details

Vendor
Teradata
Previous vendors
Aster Data Systems
Type
Property Graph
Category
Enterprise
Status
Deprecated — Last standalone release was Aster 7 in 2016; its engines were folded into Teradata Vantage in 2018.
License
Proprietary
Query Languages
SQL
Sources 2 references

License Proprietary

Closed-source commercial product; the Wikipedia comparison table lists it as Proprietary.

  • Proprietary Java , SQL , Python , C++ , R Massive parallel processing (MPP) database incorporating patented engines supporting native SQL, MapReduce, and graph data storage and manipulation
    Graph database - Wikipedia · reviewed 2026-09-23

Released 2013-10

The SQL-GR graph engine was announced with Aster Discovery Platform 6 on 8 October 2013. Aster itself predates graph support.