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DBMS > Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used in-process key-value storeDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperSoftware AGOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTranswarp
Initial release197120131994
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Supported programming languagesNaturalGo.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnono
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nono

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