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DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. Dgraph vs. FoundationDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. Dgraph vs. FoundationDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdgraph.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdgraph.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperSoftware AGDGraph LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.FoundationDBMireo
Initial release19712017201620132020
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno infosome layers support typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneyesShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneSynchronous replication via RaftyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nono infoPlanned for future releasesnoyes

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