DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#171	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

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

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Qdrant

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

1989

2021

2009

Current release

1703

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

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

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

Source-replica 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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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