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DBMS > Adabas vs. Citus vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Citus vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. Solr

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.citusdata.comobjectbox.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.objectbox.iosolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperSoftware AGObjectBox LimitedRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software Foundation
Initial release19712010201719932006
Current release8.1, December 20183.4-129.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesJava plugins
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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