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DBMS > Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvsurrealdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apisurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSoftware AGCloudflareSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19712016201820222018
Current releasev1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonRustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesNaturalGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factoryesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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