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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

1984

2018

2011

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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