DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

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

druid.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2018

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

yes

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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

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

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

based on H2

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