DBMS > MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

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

Robert Friberg et al

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

1993

2010

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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