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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Fauna vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Widely used in-process key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

fauna.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1971

2014

1994

2010

2020

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

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