DBMS > Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL 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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#79	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#286	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#208	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#283	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.postgres-xl.org

riak.com/products/riak-ts

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Google

Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

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

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

user defined functions

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

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

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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