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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. mSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Hughes Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1971

1994

2015

2012

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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)

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