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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.teradata.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP, Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2010

1987

1984

Current release

16.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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