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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl vs. XTDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.sqlite.org

sqrrl.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2000

2012

2019

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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