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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Sphinx vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comsphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB LtdTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1984200120221987
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++RustC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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