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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.eventstore.com

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rockset.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Event Store Limited

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2012

2019

2011

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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