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DBMS > Adabas vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used open source RDBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mysql.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperSoftware AGMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOracle
Initial release19712014201519952007
Current releaseV18.4.0, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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