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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSoftware AGIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1971201020172018
Current release6.0, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control

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