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DBMS > Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.commaxdb.sap.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hughes TechnologiesMireoSimer Plaha
Initial release19991984199420202018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.9.10.12, February 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno

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