DBMS > Adabas vs. jBASE vs. NSDb vs. RisingWave vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. jBASE vs. NSDb vs. RisingWave 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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

nsdb.io

www.risingwave.com/database

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Software AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

RisingWave Labs

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

1991

2017

2022

2009

Current release

5.7

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

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
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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