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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

origodb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2007

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

14.1, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C++
Java

.Net

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Write ahead log

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Role based authorization

yes

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