DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2019

1995

2009

1994

1984

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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