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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSoftware AGAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardb
Initial release19712007201220072009
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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