DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. Immudb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. Immudb

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

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

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Codenotary

Initial release

1971

2014

2004

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like syntax

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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)

yes

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