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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Valentina Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Object-relational database and reports server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.valentina-db.net

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Teradata

Paradigma Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2005

1999

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

5.7.5

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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