DBMS > Adabas vs. gStore vs. LevelDB vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. gStore vs. LevelDB vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

en.gstore.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

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

Developer

Software AG

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

1971

2016

2011

2015

2016

Current release

1.2, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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, 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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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)

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

Access rights for users and roles

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