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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. Transbase

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1971201219831987
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolyes infovia pluginsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
PHPC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyesyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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