DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org

www.teradata.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.teradata.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1989

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1984

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

10 R1, October 2018

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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