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DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SurrealDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 graphA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19712012201620172022
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.10, January 20222.0v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++ and CUDAC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
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
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
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 algorithmSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"BangdbHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM Db2 Event StoreSurrealDB
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