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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. KeyDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Software AG

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Transwarp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1971

2019

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

.Net

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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)

simple password-based access control and ACL

Based on Windows Authentication

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