DBMS > Adabas vs. LMDB vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. LMDB vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Symas

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2011

1980

2010

2015

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes, limited

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
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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