DBMS > Adabas vs. Ignite vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ignite vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2015

2005

2013

2001

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.4.2, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and 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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes

optimistic locking

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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