DBMS > Adabas vs. BigObject vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

bigobject.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Mireo

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2015

2020

2011

2018

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, 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)

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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)

yes

Role-based access control

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