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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFatCloudCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19712014201220142008
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#JavaJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.no infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptC#Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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)nono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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