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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.99
Rank	#75	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	31.63
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#271	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	5.33
Rank	#68	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.couchbase.com

geospock.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.geospock.com/Content/Home.htm

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Couchbase, Inc.

GeoSpock

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1971

2011

2010

Current release

Server: 6.5, January 2020; Mobile: 2.7, January 2020; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

2.0, September 2019

3.1.0, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

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

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

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