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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaMicrosoftQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release1971201920152009
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedhostedhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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