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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB 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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Website

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

arcadedb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ehcache.org

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Arcade Data

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Initial release

1971

2021

2016

2009

Current release

September 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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 query language, no joins

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
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

yes

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