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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Splice Machine vs. Yanza

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.iosplicemachine.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperSoftware AGObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, IncSplice MachineYanza
Initial release19712017201920142015
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
PythonC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoronline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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