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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Realm vs. RisingWave vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. 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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

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

realm.io

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Software AG

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

RisingWave Labs

8Kdata

Initial release

1971

2014

2022

2016

Current release

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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