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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DolphinDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial extension of SQLite

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Software AG

DolphinDB, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Rocket Software

Initial release

1971

2018

2008

1985

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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