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DBMS > Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. searchxml

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.gigaspaces.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSoftware AGGigaspaces TechnologiesEmbarcaderoinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release1971200019842015
Current release15.5, September 2020InterBase 2020, December 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Interbase Change Viewsyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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