Exasol vs Teradata Database
Exasol
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| Figure | Exasol | Teradata Database |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3.30/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 18 | 1 |
| Spec score · Data Warehouse Software | 9.2 (#3) | 6.9 (#15) |
| Deployment | Exasol lists on-premises, hybrid, and fully managed SaaS deployment options; on-premises environments can include air-gapped setups. | Teradata documentation lists Teradata Cloud, public cloud, Teradata hardware, commodity hardware, and hybrid cloud as deployment options. |
| Founded | 2000 | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Nuremberg, Germany | San Diego, California, USA |
| Integrations | Official ecosystem documentation lists BI integrations including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik Sense, SAS, Superset, Yellowfin and Amazon QuickSight. | Teradata’s developer portal demonstrates connections and workflows using JDBC, dbt, Teradata Parallel Transporter, and object storage such as AWS S3, Google GCS, and Azure Blob. |
| Intended users | Exasol SaaS is described as suited to organizations needing multi-departmental analytics, in-database machine learning or AI, and complex data integration or virtualization. | Teradata says its enterprise customers span financial services, healthcare, public services, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, and transportation. |
| Security | Exasol states that it is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and describes controls including access control and incident response processes. | Teradata says it supports identity and access management, optional customer-managed encryption keys, and TLS 1.3 for client sessions. |
| Support | Exasol’s support page lists 24/7 incident troubleshooting and monitoring, plus performance analysis, maintenance, and planning assistance. | Teradata Support is a web-based 24x7 portal for documentation, software and patches, and case logging and tracking; maintenance support requires applicable agreements, licensing, and fees. |
Plans
Exasol
- XS$3.30 a month
- S$6.60 a month
- M$13.20 a month
- L$26.40 a month
- XL$52.80 a month
- 2XL$105.60 a month
- 3XL$158.40 a month
- Storage$25 a month
- Exasol Community EditionFree
- Exasol PersonalFree
In their own words
Exasol
Exasol is a database for analytics and high-concurrency AI workloads, available in cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and fully managed SaaS deployments. The company says teams can analyze billions of rows in seconds and that automatic self-indexing helps tune performance. SaaS includes five databases, multi-cluster support, basic UDF support, advanced in-database analytics, and data virtualization. Teams can scale vertically or add clusters with dedicated compute for work such as data ingest or machine learning. The 30-day SaaS trial includes $200 of usage and requires no credit card. Pay-as-you-go compute is billed hourly; XS is $3.30 a month and S is $6.60 a month, while storage is listed separately at $25 a month. Free options include Exasol Personal, licensed for a single user and up to two connected data sources, and Community Edition, limited to 200GB of data. Exasol lists integrations including Airbyte, Alation, Amazon QuickSight, Apache Airflow, and Apache Superset. Its documentation covers multiple authentication methods and TLS encryption for database connections; encryption at rest must be configured on the supplied file systems and devices.
Teradata Database
Teradata Database has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.