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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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Name	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	WakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments used typically together with the Natural programming platform	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database model	Multivalue DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.89 Rank #79   Overall #1   Multivalue DBMS	Score 0.75 Rank #203   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS	Score 21.33 Rank #36   Overall #22   Relational DBMS	Score 0.03 Rank #345   Overall #18   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.html	www.geomesa.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	wakanda.github.io
Technical documentation		www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	doc.wakanda.org/­home2.en.html#/­Datastore/­Introduction.200-588937.en.html
Developer	Software AG	CCRi and others	Microsoft	Wakanda SAS
Initial release	1971	2014	2016	2012
Current release		3.2.0, April 2021		2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache License 2.0	commercial	Open Source AGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Scala	C++	C++, JavaScript
Server operating systems	BS2000 Linux Unix Windows z/OS z/VSE		hosted	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway	no	yes	no
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 JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Natural		C# Java PHP	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	in Natural	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista	depending on storage layer	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes, with add-on product Event Replicator	depending on storage layer	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	depending on storage layer	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	depending on storage layer		no
User concepts Access control	only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	yes	yes
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	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"	GeoMesa	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	WakandaDB
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