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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	423.96
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

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

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2009

2007

2006

1985

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

optional

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Live Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

configurable

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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