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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

maxdb.sap.com

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

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Amazon

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Ultipa

Initial release

2015

1984

1994

2019

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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 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

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