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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. atoti vs. BaseX

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. atoti vs. BaseX

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Object oriented DBMSNative XML DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographatoti.iobasex.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.atoti.iodocs.basex.org
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsActiveViamBaseX GmbH
Initial release1971201420182007
Current release2.3, January 202111.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infoXQuery supports types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functions and aggregatesPythonyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneAutomatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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