DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

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Name

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Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.teradata.com

yaacomo.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.teradata.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Teradata

Q2WEB GmbH

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1989

1984

2009

2001

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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