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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

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

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Software AG

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2013

2000

2018

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

hosted

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

Automatic sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role-based access control

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