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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DataFS vs. MonetDB

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.78
Rank	#82	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#22	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.17
Rank	#134	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

newdatabase.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Software AG

Mobiland AG

MonetDB BV

Initial release

1971

2018

2004

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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 2003 with some 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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in SQL, C, R

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 via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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.

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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