DBMS > MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

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

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2010

2014

1987

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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