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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Teradata vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Teradata vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.teradata.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997TeradataByteDance, originally TerarkVoltDB Inc.
Initial release1984198420162010
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelnoJava
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoHashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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