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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.78
Rank	#81	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#139	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	81.61
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#127	Overall
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

hive.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Software AG

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1971

2007

2012

2008

Current release

9.7.2, May 2022

3.1.2, August 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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