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DBMS > Adabas vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#265  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kingbase.com.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSoftware AGHEAVY.AI, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Googleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release19712016199920142015
Current release5.10, January 2022V8.0, August 20212.1.12, February 20171.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesNaturalAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application server
TriggersnonoyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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