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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. Solr

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted in-memory data gridDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docskairosdb.github.iosolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHazelcastApache Software Foundation
Initial release19712014200820132006
Current release5.3.6, November 20231.2.2, November 20189.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
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-like query languagenoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
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 Replicatornoneyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
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-storageone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednooptimistic locking
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlyes

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