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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Kdb+ vs. Microsoft Azure Search vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

High performance Time Series DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.77
Rank	#79	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	9.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.58
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#207	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#99	Relational DBMS

Website

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

kx.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

vaticle.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.vaticle.com

Developer

Software AG

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

Vaticle (formerly Grakn Labs)

Initial release

1971

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2016

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.11.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C#

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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