DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

CCRi and others

Oracle

Initial release

1971

2016

2014

2011

Current release

1703

GBase 8a

4.0.5, February 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

depending on storage layer

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

depending on storage layer

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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