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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycloud.google.com/­datastoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release19712016201620082015
Current release1703V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes, details hereyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP APILDAPgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava
Python
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonousing Google App Engineno
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
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 serviceSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights based on subaccounts and tokensLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authentication

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