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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Website

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Initial release

1971

2000

2015

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

by using Terracotta Server

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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 control via Jena Security

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