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DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. mSQL vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. mSQL vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
origodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.opengemini.org/­guideorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGAltibaseHughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGemini communityRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19711999199420222009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.4, October 20211.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CGoC#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, StringUser defined using .NET types and collections
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAdministrators and common users accountsRole based authorization

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