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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Trafodion vs. Yaacomo vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Trafodion vs. Yaacomo vs. YDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsWidely used in-process key-value storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computingA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmltrafodion.apache.orgyaacomo.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPQ2WEB GmbHYandex
Initial release19841994201420092019
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202418.1.40, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, via HBaseSource-replica replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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