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DBMS > Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hsqldb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.heavy.aihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperSoftware AGGigaspaces TechnologiesHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software
Initial release19712000201620011985
Current release15.5, September 20205.10, January 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAJavaC
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalyesnoJava, SQLyes
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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