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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

www.kinetica.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Software AG

Kinetica

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2012

1989

2010

2006

Current release

7.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

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
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

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

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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