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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Software AG

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

Oracle

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1971

1999

2014

2007

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

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
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optionally

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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