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DBMS > Adabas vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.54
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
Score1.42
Rank#149  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.59
Rank#235  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score5.51
Rank#59  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgwww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperSoftware AGSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release19712012200220102015
Current release1.1, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCJava.NET and C
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required.NEThosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
in-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-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 integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights per client and object definableyes infousing Azure authentication

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