DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

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

altibase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Initial release

1971

1999

2015

1995

2007

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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