DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GBase vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL

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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

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

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	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.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1971

2016

2004

2013

1995

Current release

1703

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary 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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

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

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

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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