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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ITTIA vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ittia.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

ITTIA L.L.C.

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2007

2015

2013

Current release

8.7

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL-like query language

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
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Database file passwords

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

simple password-based access control

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