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DBMS > Adabas vs. Databricks vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Databricks vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.databricks.comgeospock.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSoftware AGDatabricksGeoSpockGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release1971201320002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.0, September 201915.5, September 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaywith Databricks SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesNaturalPython
R
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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