DBMS > Adabas vs. Coveo vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Coveo vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.coveo.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

Coveo

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1971

2012

2017

2015

1995

Current release

2.0

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

proprietary syntax

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

yes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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)

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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