DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed 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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Mireo

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

1984

2020

2009

Current release

1703

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

HP Open VMS

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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