DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SpaceTime vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SpaceTime vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational 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.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.mireo.com/spacetime

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

IBM

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1971

2017

2014

2020

2014

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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 Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Java Stored Procedures

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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