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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

alasql.org

hsqldb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2014

2001

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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.

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.

yes

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

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

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

Atomic execution of operations

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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