DBMS > Adabas vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenQM vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenQM vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Developer

Software AG

Kyligence, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2016

1993

2020

Current release

3.4-12

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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