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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2014

2021

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomic execution of operations

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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