DBMS > Adabas vs. Hazelcast vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hazelcast vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hazelcast.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

Hazelcast

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2008

2013

1987

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

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

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

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 password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Re-evaluating legacy: Should you leave Adabas (and Natural) behind?
30 May 2024, ITWeb

State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist
12 April 2024, SiliconANGLE News

IBM buys 50-year-old Software AG's enterprise tech units for €2.13B in cash
18 December 2023, The Register

Michael E. Jakes Obituary (1941 - 2023)
26 October 2023, Legacy.com

Is it the end of the road for Software AG after selling its integration business to IBM?
12 January 2024, diginomica

provided by Google News

Hazelcast Showcases Real-Time Data Platform at 2024 Gartner Summit
15 May 2024, Datanami

Hazelcast Weaves Wider Logic Threads Through The Data Fabric
7 March 2024, Forbes

Hazelcast 5.4 real time data processing platform boosts AI and consistency
17 April 2024, VentureBeat

Hazelcast Versus Redis: A Practical Comparison
4 January 2024, Database Trends and Applications

Hazelcast: The 'true' value of streaming real-time data
27 September 2023, ComputerWeekly.com

provided by Google News

Share this page