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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. FileMaker

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. FileMaker

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release19712014200720121983
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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.nononoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL like support with command line toolyes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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