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DBMS > Adabas vs. DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. OrientDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 platformAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlduckdb.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorientdb.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGGeoSpockOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release1971201820142010
Current release0.10, February 20242.0, September 20193.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-lesshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJavaScript APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnonoView functions in JavaScriptJava, Javascript
TriggersnononoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornonenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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