DBMS > MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rdf4j.org

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

IBM

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SADAS s.r.l.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2000

2004

2006

2019

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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