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DBMS > MaxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comrethinkdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017MireoSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842009202020182018
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedFixed-grid hypercubesnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsyesnoRole-based access control

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