DBMS > Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kinetica.com

machbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.kinetica.com

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Software AG

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2017

2012

2013

1989

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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