DBMS > Adabas vs. HarperDB vs. Infobright vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HarperDB vs. Infobright vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.harperdb.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.vertica.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Software AG

HarperDB

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2017

2005

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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