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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. LeanXcale vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

www.leanxcale.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Software AG

Gigaspaces Technologies

LeanXcale

Cesbit

Initial release

1971

2000

2015

2017

Current release

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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