DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

drill.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.esgyn.cn

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Esgyn

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2015

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

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

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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