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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Website

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

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Software AG

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Softmotions

Initial release

1971

2008

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPLv2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

with proprietary extensions

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
OLE DB

JDBC

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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