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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. openGauss vs. OpenQM

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

geospock.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Software AG

GeoSpock

Huawei and openGauss community

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1971

2019

1993

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.0, March 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

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)

ANSI SQL 2011

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

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.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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