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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Geode

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.dbase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegeode.apache.org
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationAsthon TateFairCom CorporationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19712008197919792002
Current release11.0, January 2021dBASE 2019, 2019V3, October 20201.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyesnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalJava Stored Proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanonenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights per client and object definable

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