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DBMS > Adabas vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A multi-model DBMS and application serverLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSoftware AGSoftmotionsInterSystemsObjectBox Limited
Initial release19712012199720172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2018.1.4, May 20204.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-lessAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyesnoyes 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
in-process shared library.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesNaturalActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonenonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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