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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.aiwww.sadasengine.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OraclequasardbSADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19842007200920062014
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202414.1, August 20233.14.1, January 20248.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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