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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Qdrant

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2021

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Key-based authentication

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