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DBMS > MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.11
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score39.10
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score142.50
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release198420102014
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Appliance or cloud-servicehosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesSQLScript, Ruser defined functions
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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