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

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series 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.comquasar.airavendb.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardbHibernating RhinosApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release19842009201020142022
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.14.1, January 20245.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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