DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.exasol.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

Exasol

Konrad von Backstrom

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1971

2017

2000

2018

2004

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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