DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

alasql.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

origodb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

origodb.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon Web Services

Robert Friberg et al

Teradata

Initial release

1971

2014

2021

2009

under the name LiveDB

1984

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

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

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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