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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSoftware AGChris DavisApache Software Foundation
Initial release1971200620012014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release2.7.2, June 202310 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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