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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. openGauss vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

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

Huawei and openGauss community

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0, March 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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