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DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 graphdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19712012201220102012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesno
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 algorithmShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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