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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Teradata vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.teradata.com

trafodion.apache.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.teradata.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Teradata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1995

2011

1984

2014

1999

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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