DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA

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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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

www.citusdata.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.citusdata.com

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP

Initial release

1971

2014

2010

2013

2010

Current release

8.1, December 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based 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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

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.

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

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

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

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