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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Teradata

Initial release

2009

2004

1984

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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