DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

en.gstore.cn

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2016

2020

Current release

1703

1.2, November 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

LDAP bind authentication

yes

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

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