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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Software AG

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1971

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2010

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

Role based authorization

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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