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DBMS > Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlblueflood.iowww.gigaspaces.comhsqldb.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSoftware AGRackspaceGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release19712013200020012014
Current release15.5, September 20202.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoyesJava, SQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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