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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.heavy.ai

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

Softmotions

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Triggers

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

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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