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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

opennms.github.io/newts

yaacomo.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Q2WEB GmbH

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2009

2001

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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