DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. gStore

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. gStore

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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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

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

www.citusdata.com

www.gbase.cn

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2016

2010

2004

2016

Current release

1703

8.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, 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

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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