DBMS > Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd vs. Transbase

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.54
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bigobject.io

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2015

2009

1987

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

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)

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

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

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

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)

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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