DBMS > MaxDB vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

ravendb.net

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

ravendb.net/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

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

Hibernating Rhinos

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2010

2020

2014

2016

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

5.4, July 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default 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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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