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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. jBASE

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

In-memory caching system

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

cachelot.io

geospock.com

hsqldb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Software AG

GeoSpock

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1971

2015

2001

1991

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.7.2, June 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Memcached protocol

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

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

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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