DBMS > Adabas vs. Hyprcubd vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hyprcubd vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

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

hyprcubd.com (offline)

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Software AG

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2018

2014

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC (https)

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

token access

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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