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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

origodb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

origodb.com/docs

Developer

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

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Robert Friberg et al

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

1994

2021

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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