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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. gStore vs. Tkrzw

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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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

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Score	2.65
Rank	#93	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.44
Rank	#101	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS
	#20	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

en.gstore.cn

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1971

2000

2016

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.2, November 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access control via Jena Security

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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