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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgdruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardb
Initial release19712014201220112009
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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