DBMS > Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

www.snowflake.com

typedb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typedb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Vaticle

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2016

2001

Current release

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

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

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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