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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.teradata.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.teradata.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Mireo

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2020

1984

2019

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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