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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.h2gis.org

nsdb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Software AG

CNRS

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

1971

2013

2017

2015

1984

Current release

1.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Java
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

yes

on the application server

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

based on H2

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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