DBMS > Adabas vs. Fauna vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Fauna vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

fauna.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2014

2010

2015

2011

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

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

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