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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Software AG

CCRi and others

CNRS

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2014

2013

2012

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

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

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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