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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Qdrant vs. YottaDB

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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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

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

alasql.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

qdrant.tech/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Qdrant

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2014

2021

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

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.

by using the Octo plugin

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Collection-level replication

yes

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, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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)

Key-based authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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