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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

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

machbase.com

origodb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Machbase

Robert Friberg et al

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Role based authorization

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