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DBMS > Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperSoftware AGMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataYugabyte Inc.
Initial release19712015201420192017
Current releaseV13.0, August 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesyes
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Microsoft Azure AI SearchSnowflakeTDengineYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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