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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NSDb vs. searchxml

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
nsdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.heavy.ainsdb.io/­Architecturewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSoftware AGGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release19712008201620172015
Current release5.10, January 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like query language (GQL)yesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalusing Google App Enginenonoyes infoon the application server
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine 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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