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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

memgraph.com

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

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

memgraph.com/docs

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

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

Manticore Software

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2017

1989

Current release

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Free license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

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

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

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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