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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

CCRi and others

Gigaspaces Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2014

2000

2015

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

15.5, September 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

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

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