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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

1971

2015

1989

2019

Current release

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

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

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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