Baidu Tera
C
C tier on Wide-Column DatabasesScore 6.3 · #7 of 17
- Android app
- Not listed
- Free plan
- No
- Runs on
- api, Linux, self-hosted
Summary
Baidu Tera is ranked #7 of 17 in wide-column databases on Everything Xiaomi. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted.
Compared on wide-column databases
- Free plan
- Yesgithub.com
- Deployment model
- self_hostedgithub.com
- Query interface
- multiplegithub.com
- Consistency controls
- stronggithub.com
- Transaction support
- Yesgithub.com
- Horizontal scaling
- Yesgithub.com
Facts
- Product
- Tera is a high-performance distributed NoSQL database designed for real-time applications.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The project says Tera can scale to petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Data model
- Tera stores sparse, distributed, multidimensional tables indexed by row key, column key, and timestamp.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Consistency and availability
- Listed features include strict consistency, automatic failover, online schema changes, and snapshots.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Storage and queries
- Tera supports RAMDISK, SSD, and disk tables, tiered cache, block cache, and Bloom Filters for real-time queries.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Client interfaces
- The project lists C++, Java, Python, and REST APIs.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Tera's README lists HDFS and other filesystems, ZooKeeper and Nexus lock services, and Sofa-pbrpc as infrastructure dependencies.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The README says Tera can run on raw machines or in Docker, and describes a pseudo-distributed mode on a single host using the local filesystem.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- The repository lists BSD-3-Clause and Apache-2.0 licenses; the README does not state security certifications or compliance claims.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Support and contribution
- The README welcomes contributions and provides [email protected] for joining the project.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- The README describes use in throughput-oriented and latency-sensitive Baidu products, including web indexing, WebPage DB, and LinkBase DB.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- Baidu says it uses Tera in products including web indexing, WebPage DB, and LinkBase DB, for workloads ranging from throughput-oriented applications to latency-sensitive services.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Sharding
- Features include linear and modular scalability, automatic configurable sharding, and ranged or hashed sharding strategies.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Data and consistency
- Tera supports MVCC, column-oriented storage with locality groups, and strict consistency.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Operations
- Listed capabilities include automatic failover, online schema changes, and snapshots.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Client APIs
- The README lists C++, Java, Python, and RESTful APIs for accessing Tera.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Tera consists of an SDK, a master, and tablet servers; tablet servers use an enhanced LevelDB storage engine and handle read, write, and scan requests.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository lists BSD-3-Clause and Apache-2.0 licenses.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The English documentation index links to user manuals for pseudo-distributed mode, the API, and teracli, plus a performance benchmark page.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
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Sources
- github.com/baidu/tera· checked 4 Oct 2026
- github.com/baidu/tera/tree/master/doc/en· checked 4 Oct 2026