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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

maxdb.sap.com

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

DGraph Labs

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

1984

1994

2018

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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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