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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Altibase

IBM

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

1999

1983

host version

2011

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

12.1, October 2016

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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