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DBMS > MaxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comobjectbox.iowww.teradata.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997ObjectBox LimitedTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984201719842018
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoHashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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MaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DObjectBoxTeradataTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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