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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

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

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2011

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

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