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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. PlanetScale vs. QuestDB vs. Teradata

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresplanetscale.comquestdb.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresplanetscale.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperActian CorporationPlanetScaleQuestDB Technology IncTeradata
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s202020141984
Current release12.0, July 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at shard levelACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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