DBMS > PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

SAP

Teradata

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2005

2010

1984

1998

2018

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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