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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

machbase.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

machbase.com/dbms

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Exasol

Machbase

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

Oracle

Initial release

2000

2013

1984

1980

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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