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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

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

nsdb.io

origodb.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Software AG

Robert Friberg et al

Ultipa

Initial release

1971

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

all fields are automatically indexed

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
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Scala

.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

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

Eventual 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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based authorization

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