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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. etcd vs. gStore

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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

A distributed reliable key-value store

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
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	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Website

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

bigobject.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2015

2016

Current release

3.4, August 2019

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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)

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

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)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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