DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2016

2013

2018

2001

Current release

1703

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

by using the Octo plugin

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

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Atomic execution of operations

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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