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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ReductStore

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

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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	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Exasol

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

1971

2000

1984

2023

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

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 according to SQL-standard

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