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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. LokiJS vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB vs. YottaDB

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Software AG

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1971

2014

2011

2016

2001

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

C#
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

View functions in JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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