DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

2005

2006

1987

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

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

HTTP REST

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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