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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. MonetDB vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.13
Rank	#81	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.38
Rank	#131	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	8.24
Rank	#54	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Website

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

www.monetdb.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Software AG

MonetDB BV

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

1971

2004

2014

Current release

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

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
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in SQL, C, R

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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