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DBMS > Adabas vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. SurrealDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGInterSystemsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release197119972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122022
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 2018v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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