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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

objectbox.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.objectbox.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

ObjectBox Limited

STS Soft SC

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2017

2011

1987

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

HTTP REST

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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