DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. EJDB vs. Oracle vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. EJDB vs. Oracle vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Widely used RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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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	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Softmotions

Oracle

Teradata

Initial release

1971

2012

1980

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in Aster File Store

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

with proprietary extensions

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

R packages

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, horizontal partitioning

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)

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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