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DBMS > Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation enginemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSNative XML DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbasex.orgwww.graphengine.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSoftware AGBaseX GmbHMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release19712007201019942014
Current release10.7, August 20234.4, October 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CCScala
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesyesnono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono

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