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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

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

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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