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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tarantool vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1971

2014

2013

2008

2014

Current release

2.10.0, May 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

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.

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Open binary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

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

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

simple password-based access control

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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