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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. JaguarDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DataJaguar, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2015

2008

2015

2011

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

Triggers

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

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

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