DBMS > Adabas vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2010

2020

1999

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

SQLScript, R

yes

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

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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