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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.High performance Time Series DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlblueflood.iowww.postgresql.fastware.comkx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualscode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperSoftware AGRackspacePostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release197120132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20223.6, May 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCq
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infobased on Cassandrapartitioning by range, list and by hashhorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authentication
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"BluefloodFujitsu Enterprise PostgresKdbMicrosoft Azure AI Search
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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