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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Typesense

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

typesense.org

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

2015

1994

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

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
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

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