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DBMS > Adabas vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSoftware AGTranswarpWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release19712014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192009
Current release10 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistahorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Postgres-XLTranswarp KunDBWeaviateYaacomo
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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