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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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 extension of H2

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.h2gis.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

CNRS

Konrad von Backstrom

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2013

2018

2014

2015

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

yes

based on H2

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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