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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenTenBase vs. ToroDB

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Name

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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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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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
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

8Kdata

Initial release

1971

2015

2016

Current release

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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