DBMS > Adabas vs. BaseX vs. GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

BaseX GmbH

Gigaspaces Technologies

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2007

2000

2014

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

yes

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