DBMS > Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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.

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

1971

2013

1984

2013

2010

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

yes, on a single node

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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