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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.In-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.teradata.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBSAP infoformerly SybaseTeradata
Initial release20122005201419921984
Current release1.20.3, January 202314, December 202117, July 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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