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DBMS > Adabas vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgeode.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperSoftware AGDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MicrosoftTranswarp
Initial release1971200820022015
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definableyes infousing Azure authentication

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