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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable vs. SwayDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Software AG

CCRi and others

Hypertable Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2014

2009

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

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