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DBMS > Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgeospock.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperSoftware AGGeoSpockOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)MireoSplice Machine
Initial release1971198420202014
Current release2.0, September 20197.4.1.1, 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedHP Open VMSLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoyes infoJava
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaAutomatic shardingFixed-grid hypercubesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users can be defined per tableyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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