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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FatDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Tibero vs. XTDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

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

splicemachine.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

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

Technical documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

FatCloud

Splice Machine

TmaxSoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2012

2014

2003

2019

Current release

3.1, March 2021

7, September 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

yes

Java

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

via applications

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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