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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

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

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2014

2009

1987

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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