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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.30
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

boilerbay.com

maxdb.sap.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

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

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2002

1984

2009

Current release

4.0

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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