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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

www.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Software AG

Cognitect

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2010

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
Java

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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