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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Linter vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

RDBMS for high security requirements

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

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

newdatabase.com

www.esgyn.cn

linter.ru

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Software AG

Mobiland AG

Esgyn

relex.ru

Google

Initial release

1971

2018

2015

1990

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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