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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

www.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

docs.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2005

1984

1987

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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16 October 2017, The New Stack

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