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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. MonetDB vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.teradata.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

MonetDB BV

Teradata

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2004

1984

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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