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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSoftware AGAltibaseInterSystemsinformationpartners gmbhTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19711999201820151987
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 20231.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92yesnoyes
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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsyesyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writeryes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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