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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. atoti vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

atoti.io

boilerbay.com

github.com/google/leveldb

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Software AG

ActiveViam

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2002

2011

2018

Current release

4.0

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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)

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