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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. openGemini vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

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

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Software AG

Huawei and openGemini community

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1971

2022

2015

2014

Current release

1.1, July 2023

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Sharding

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)

Administrators and common users accounts

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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