DBMS > MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

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

Qdrant

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2021

2022

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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