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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.postgres-xl.org

www.teradata.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.teradata.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Teradata

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1984

1998

Current release

15585

10 R1, October 2018

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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