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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. Interbase vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Software AG

Softmotions

Embarcadero

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

1984

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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