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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. STSdb 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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.68
Rank	#82	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.57
Rank	#142	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Software AG

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1971

2011

2010

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java

Triggers

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

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

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

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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