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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2005

1994

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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