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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ArcadeDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SpaceTime

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

arcadedb.com

hazelcast.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Software AG

Arcade Data

Hazelcast

Mireo

Initial release

1971

2021

2008

2020

Current release

September 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

yes

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