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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. VoltDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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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	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

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

alasql.org

www.voltdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.voltdb.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

VoltDB Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1971

2014

2010

2023

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux
OS X

for development

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

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

only a subset of SQL 99

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

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

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Access Control Lists

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