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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A 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 MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#145	Overall
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

MonetDB BV

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2004

2014

1984

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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 with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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