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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, IncYanza
Initial release198420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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