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DBMS > Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Graphite vs. JaguarDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Graphite vs. JaguarDB vs. STSdb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
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Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iowww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperSoftware AGBaseX GmbHChris DavisDataJaguar, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release19712007200620152011
Current release11.2, August 20243.3 July 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
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
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesNaturalActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornonenoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
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 datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnorights management via user accountsno

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