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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.teradata.com

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2005

1984

2018

1998

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

in-memory journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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