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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FatDB vs. Manticore Search vs. XTDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

FatCloud

Manticore Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2012

2017

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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