DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS 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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Spatial extension of H2

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial 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

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2gis.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

CNRS

Mireo

Initial release

1971

2017

2000

2013

2020

Current release

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

based on H2

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Role-based access control

yes

based on H2

yes

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