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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

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

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2013

2015

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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