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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Aerospike vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaerospike.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreptime.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greptime.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperSoftware AGAerospikeGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Greptime Inc.
Initial release19712012201220222001
Current release7.0, November 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCRustJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxhostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functions infowith Lualimited functionality with using 'rules'PythonJava, SQL
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyyes, based on authentication and database rulesSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafFirebase Realtime DatabaseGreptimeDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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