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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. Riak TS

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	4.78
Rank	#81	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#180	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#338	Overall
	#50	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#281	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

altibase.com

boilerbay.com

riak.com/products/riak-ts

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

Boiler Bay Inc.

Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

1999

2002

2015

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

restricted

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)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

links between datasets can be stored

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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