DBMS > Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

velocitydb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Software AG

Google

TmaxSoft

VelocityDB Inc

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2014

2003

2011

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6, April 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Assembler

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
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

.Net

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Based on Windows Authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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