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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. SQLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

Hypertable Inc.

Embarcadero

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

2009

1984

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor on file system level

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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