DBMS > Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.esgyn.cn

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

Esgyn

FatCloud

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2013

2015

2012

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple password-based access control

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