DBMS > Adabas vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

www.monetdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Software AG

Esgyn

MonetDB BV

Simer Plaha

8Kdata

Initial release

1971

2015

2004

2018

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users and roles

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