DBMS > Adabas vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Object-relational database and reports server

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

www.valentina-db.net

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Software AG

Embarcadero

Google

Paradigma Software

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

1984

2014

1999

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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