DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Couchbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

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

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Axibase Corporation

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2014

2012

2013

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15585

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

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

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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