DBMS > Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

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

geospock.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Software AG

GeoSpock

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Initial release

1971

2015

1991

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.3 July 2023

5.7

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source 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

Eventual 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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