DBMS > MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

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

Qdrant

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2021

2004

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Key-based authentication

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