DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. ToroDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. ToroDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/torodb/server

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Firebird Foundation

8Kdata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2009

Current release

1703

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

LDAP

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PSQL

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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