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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. DataFS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

newdatabase.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Mobiland AG

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2014

2012

2018

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

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

Proprietary Sharding system

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Windows-Profile

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