DBMS > MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

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

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2014

2017

2011

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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