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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Ehcache vs. H2GIS

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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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CNRS

Initial release

1971

2012

2009

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

JCache

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

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)

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

based on H2

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

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