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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. jBASE

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbiotdb.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release197120181991
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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