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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Esgyn

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2015

2001

1984

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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