DBMS > Adabas vs. Databend vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Databend vs. Linter 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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational 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

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

linter.ru

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

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

Databend Labs

relex.ru

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1971

2021

1990

2015

1995

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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 with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

none

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

none

Source-replica 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

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

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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