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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2014

1984

2018

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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