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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.MireoTimescale
Initial release19842015200620202017
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.0.0, September 20228.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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