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DBMS > Adabas vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#171  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rockset.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperSoftware AGFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.QdrantRockset
Initial release19712000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520212019
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesRustC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleandynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalPSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptrights management via user accountsKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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