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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Firebird vs. searchxml vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Software AG

Firebird Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Yandex

Initial release

1971

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2023

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PSQL

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

Access Control Lists

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