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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. VelocityDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.teradata.comterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997TeradataDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19841984201820232011
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20231.0, May 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesnono
TriggersyesyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsBased on Windows Authentication

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