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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trafodion.apache.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Software AG

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2023

Current release

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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