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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. Dragonfly vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. Dragonfly vs. STSdb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgdoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
github.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSTS Soft SC
Initial release19712014201720232011
Current release1.2.2, February 20231.0, March 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesscheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIJDBC
MySQL client
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsLuano
Triggersnoyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationno

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