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DBMS > Adabas vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.h2database.commanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGThomas MuellerManticore SoftwareJuxt Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release19712005201720192009
Current release2.2.220, July 20236.0, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, each node contains all dataSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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