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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ArcadeDB vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

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

arcadedb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Software AG

Arcade Data

Google

STS Soft SC

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2021

2014

2011

2009

Current release

September 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

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

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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