DBMS > Adabas vs. Badger vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

Mireo

ByteDance, originally Terark

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1971

2017

2020

2016

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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)

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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