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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQream DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.sqream.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

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

SingleStore Inc.

SQream Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.5, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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DB-Engines blog posts

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9 June 2022, Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor)

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14 February 2022, Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor)

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