DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1971

2014

2012

1991

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

optional

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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