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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Hazelcast vs. OrigoDB

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

hazelcast.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

BaseX GmbH

Hazelcast

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1971

2007

2008

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Events

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Role based authorization

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