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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  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 platformA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFatCloud
Initial release19712016201220052012
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL for queryingSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesNaturalC++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia applications
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicator3 replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Alibaba Cloud user access controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoCan implement custom security layer via applications
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DrillCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"FatDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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