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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Linter vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

RDBMS for high security requirements

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

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

linter.ru

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

relex.ru

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

1990

2015

2013

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple password-based access control

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