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DBMS > MaxDB vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comquestdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997QuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1984201420091987
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.2.0, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DQuestDBRiak KVTransbase
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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