DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

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

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1971

2000

2015

2014

1999

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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)

Access control via Jena Security

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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