DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Couchbase vs. STSdb vs. Virtuoso

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Couchbase vs. STSdb vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	4.58
Rank	#78	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#113	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	31.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#284	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	2.88
Rank	#99	Overall
	#19	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#3	Native XML DBMS
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#3	RDF stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#9	Search engines

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.couchbase.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.couchbase.com

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Couchbase, Inc.

STS Soft SC

OpenLink Software

Initial release

1971

2007

2011

1998

Current release

Server: 6.5, January 2020; Mobile: 2.7, January 2020; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

08.03.3316, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

C#
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

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 must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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