DBMS > Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

1983

2010

2015

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V12

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

via plugins

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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