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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2017

1984

2013

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users and groups

More information provided by the system vendor

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