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DBMS > Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSoftware AGClaris infoa subsidiary of Appleinformationpartners gmbhAlessandro Furieri
Initial release197119832014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20152008
Current release19.4.1, November 202110 R1, October 20181.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windowsserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infovia pluginsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesNaturalPHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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