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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HBase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. Tkrzw

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWidely used in-process key-value storeA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlhbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleQdrantMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release19712008199420212020
Current release2.3.4, January 202118.1.40, May 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoKey-based authenticationno

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