DBMS > Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BaseX vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

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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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

BaseX GmbH

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Initial release

1971

2007

2014

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Change Listeners

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

In-Memory realm

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

yes

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