DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. H2GIS

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.gbase.cn

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CNRS

Initial release

1971

2016

2004

2013

Current release

1703

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Standard with numerous extensions

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 API

LDAP

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

LDAP bind authentication

yes

based on H2

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