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DBMS > Datomic vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.teradata.com
DeveloperCognitectSAP infoformerly SybaseTeradata
Initial release20122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19921984
Current release1.0.7180, July 202410 R1, October 201817, July 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
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 proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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