DBMS > Adabas vs. EJDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EJDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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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)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

Softmotions

informationpartners gmbh

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2009

1987

Current release

1.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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