DBMS > Adabas vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2004

2008

2015

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

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 API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

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 (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

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)

yes

Role-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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