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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. GreptimeDB vs. STSdb 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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

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

bigobject.io

greptime.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

STS Soft SC

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2015

2022

2011

2009

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

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)

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

Python

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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