DBMS > Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDBMS for high security requirements

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.kinetica.com

linter.ru

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Kinetica

relex.ru

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2005

2012

1990

1989

1984

Current release

7.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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