DBMS > Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite 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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Software AG

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alessandro Furieri

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2014

1993

2008

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

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

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