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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rethinkdb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Teradata

Initial release

1995

2007

2009

1984

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.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++
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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