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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. Machbase vs. Riak KV

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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)

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	4.78
Rank	#81	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#314	Overall
	#41	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#348	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Website

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

ejdb.org

www.machbase.com

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

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

endoc.machbase.com

Developer

Software AG

Softmotions

Machbase

Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2009

Current release

V6.5, August 2021

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Machbase is an extremely fast time series database which processes large volumes...
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Competitive advantages

Fastest Database for IIoT, Independently verified, on Industry Standard Benchmarks....
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Typical application scenarios

Distributed Query In Machbase Cluster Edition, a broker node, which is responsible...
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Key customers

Machbase has over 50 customers, including Samsung, POSCO, and Hyundai.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Machbase provide several product editions, including: Intelligent Edge Device, Fog...
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