DBMS > Adabas vs. gStore vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. gStore vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Coherence 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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

en.gstore.cn

www.leanxcale.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

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

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

Developer

Software AG

LeanXcale

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2016

2015

2007

2015

Current release

1.2, November 2023

14.1, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

through Apache Derby

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

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

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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