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DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
drill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software FoundationFatCloudIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19712017201220122010
Current release1.2.2, February 20231.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC#Erlang
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
MySQL client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaC++C#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infovia applicationsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistahorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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