DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Kdb+ vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Kdb+ vs. MarkLogic

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.77
Rank	#79	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	9.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.78
Rank	#50	Overall
	#9	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

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

kx.com

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

1971

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2001

Current release

1703

3.6, May 2018

9.0, 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL92

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate 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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

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

LDAP bind authentication

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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