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DBMS > Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlblueflood.iowww.esgyn.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperSoftware AGRackspaceEsgynGoogleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release19712013201520142017
Current release2.1.12, February 20176.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesNaturalAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScriptC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRoles, resources, and access types

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