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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.77
Rank	#79	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#181	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#350	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

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

altibase.com

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

1971

1999

2002

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

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

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