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DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Kdb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Kdb vs. Yaacomo

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.High performance Time Series DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comkx.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscode.kx.com
DeveloperSoftware AGAltibaseFatCloudKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release1971199920122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#q
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92no infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (q)yes
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
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
C#C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsyes infovia applicationsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"AltibaseFatDBKdbYaacomo
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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