DBMS > Immudb vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com

www.progress.com/openedge

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Codenotary

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

Progress Software Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2020

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Users and groups

Role based authorization

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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