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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Druid vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

druid.apache.org

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

1971

2019

2017

2012

2009

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

SQL for querying

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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