DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Realm vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Realm vs. Teradata

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.16
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerrealm.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerrealm.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperSoftware AGMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Teradata
Initial release1971201920141984
Current releasecloud service with continuous releasesTeradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoChange Listenersyes
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 servicenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Azure Active Directory Authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Microsoft Azure Data ExplorerRealmTeradata
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Teradata is the most popular data warehouse DBMS
2 April 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Modernize Natural and Adabas Workloads on AWS with Advanced's Application Transparency Platform | Amazon Web ...
1 April 2024, AWS Blog

State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist
13 April 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Deploying Software AG Adabas and Natural Workloads on AWS | Amazon Web Services
25 May 2021, AWS Blog

IBM buys 50-year-old Software AG's enterprise tech units for €2.13B in cash
18 December 2023, The Register

A Second Look at LzLabs' Mainframe Migration
28 June 2017, Virtualization Review

provided by Google News

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark
16 August 2022, azure.microsoft.com

Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure - Inside Track Blog
13 July 2023, microsoft.com

What is Microsoft Fabric? A big tech stack for big data
9 February 2024, InfoWorld

Azure Data Explorer and Stream Analytics for anomaly detection
16 January 2020, azure.microsoft.com

Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation
11 February 2019, azure.microsoft.com

provided by Google News

MongoDB aims to unify developer experience with launch of MongoDB Cloud
9 June 2020, diginomica

Kotlin Programming Language Will Surpass Java On Android Next Year
15 October 2017, Fossbytes

Is Swift the Future of Server-side Development?
12 September 2017, Solutions Review

A Quick Look at Open Source Databases for Mobile App Development
29 April 2018, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Teradata (NYSE:TDC) Could Become A Multi-Bagger
18 April 2024, Yahoo Finance UK

Teradata (NYSE:TDC) PT Lowered to $39.00
16 April 2024, Defense World

Teradata Appoints Richard Petley as Chief Revenue Officer
5 April 2024, Business Wire

Teradata Announces Executive Shift with CRO Resignation and Succession - TipRanks.com
5 April 2024, TipRanks

Why We're Not Concerned About Teradata Corporation's (NYSE:TDC) Share Price
26 March 2024, Simply Wall St

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Present your product here