DBMS > Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

1984

2017

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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

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