DBMS > Adabas vs. BaseX vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

opentsdb.net

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Software AG

BaseX GmbH

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2007

2011

2017

2009

Current release

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

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

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

based on HBase

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate 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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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