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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

postgis.net/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Software AG

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1971

2017

2005

2000

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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