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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

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

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2009

2015

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

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

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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