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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. jBASE vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Software AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

1971

2019

1991

2022

Current release

5.7

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Administrators and common users accounts

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