DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Initial release

1971

2014

2017

2015

2014

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux
OS X

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

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.

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

none

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

Eventual 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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, using LMDB

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

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