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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sequoiadb.com

www.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

IBM

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

1984

1987

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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