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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Software AG

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Manticore Software

Mireo

Initial release

1971

2008

2017

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java
PHP

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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