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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2013

2004

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

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