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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.ioravendb.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, IncHibernating RhinosApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release19842019201020142022
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20245.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleannoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API.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
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Python.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
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-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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