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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Dolt vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.dolthub.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

DoltHub Inc

Machbase

Initial release

1971

2012

2018

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

yes (enterprise version only)

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple password-based access control

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