DBMS > Adabas vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

1984

2013

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Interbase Change Views

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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