DBMS > Adabas vs. Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Elasticsearch vs. FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Elastic

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Symas

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2010

1983

2011

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate 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

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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