DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.mysql.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mireo

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1971

2017

1995

2020

2012

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

proprietary syntax

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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