DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. Qdrant vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. Qdrant vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.gbase.cn

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Qdrant

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2016

2004

2021

Current release

1703

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Standard with numerous extensions

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

LDAP

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

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

cell division

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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)

LDAP bind authentication

yes

Key-based authentication

yes

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