DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Mireo

Initial release

1971

2017

2015

2018

2020

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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)

Windows-Profile

yes

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