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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. CouchDB vs. Databricks vs. Interbase vs. mSQL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcouchdb.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.databricks.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDatabricksEmbarcaderoHughes Technologies
Initial release19712005201319841994
Current release3.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCC
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynowith Databricks SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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