DBMS > atoti vs. BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

basex.org

couchdb.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.basex.org

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

ActiveViam

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2007

2005

2010

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

via views

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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