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System Properties Comparison STSdb vs. Teradata vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	9.62
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.teradata.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

STS Soft SC

Teradata

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2011

1984

2023

2005

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

1.0, May 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C#
Java

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

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark 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 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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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