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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone vs. YTsaurus

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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 H2A managed, cloud-native vector databaseYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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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
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.pinecone.ioytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkairosdb.github.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPinecone Systems, IncYandex
Initial release19712014201320192023
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedUbuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
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
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
PythonC++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nosimple password-based access controlAccess Control Lists

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