DBMS > MaxDB vs. NCache vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. NCache vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

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

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2005

2014

2001

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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