DBMS > Adabas vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Software AG

Cognitect

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1971

2012

1997

2013

2019

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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