DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA

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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

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

CCRi and others

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

Initial release

1971

2016

2014

1993

2010

Current release

1703

4.0.5, February 2024

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

with some exceptions

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

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

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

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 can be defined down to the item level

yes

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