DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1971

2017

2016

1993

2021

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.4-12

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

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

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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