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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. NuoDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.78
Rank	#90	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#206	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1971

2013

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

tunable commit protocol

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC based

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

users and table-level permissions

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