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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Prometheus

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Oracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series 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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkairosdb.github.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOracle
Initial release19712014201320072015
Current release1.2.2, November 201814.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nosimple password-based access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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