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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DataFS vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph 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	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

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

newdatabase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Software AG

Mobiland AG

Spotify

Initial release

1971

2018

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Windows-Profile

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