DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Couchbase vs. FatDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Couchbase vs. FatDB vs. Solr

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.couchbase.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.couchbase.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2016

2011

2012

2006

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Java

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

via applications

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

via applications

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

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