DBMS > Adabas vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

ToroDB 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/torodb/server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Software AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alessandro Furieri

8Kdata

SenX

Initial release

1971

2010

2008

2016

2015

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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