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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.stardog.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

docs.stardog.com

Developer

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

Apache Software Foundation

Stardog-Union

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2014

2010

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles

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