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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

galaxybase.com

maxdb.sap.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

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

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

1984

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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