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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. OushuDB

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

Well established RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue 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	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oushu

Initial release

1971

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1993

Current release

11.2, May 2022

3.4-12

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

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)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

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.

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

MVCC

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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