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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

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

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Initial release

1984

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2005

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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