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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

1995

2013

2015

1984

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

1.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

yes

on the application server

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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