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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

Developer

Software AG

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2008

2015

1994

2018

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

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

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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