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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpostgis.netravendb.netspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997PerconaHibernating RhinosApache Software Foundation
Initial release19842015200520102014
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20173.4.2, February 20245.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC#Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infovia In-Memory Enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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