DBMS > Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2016

1984

2012

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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