DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiriDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiriDB vs. SurrealDB

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document 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	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.siridb.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Cesbit

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1971

2014

2013

2017

2022

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

Numeric data

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 query language

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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)

simple password-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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