DBMS > Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Speedb

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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