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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DataFS vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

newdatabase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Mobiland AG

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1971

2018

2015

2012

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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