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DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.dolphindb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.databricks.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDatabricksDolphinDB, Inc
Initial release19712012201320132018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022v2.00.4, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree community version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLSQL-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
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesNaturalClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAdministrators, Users, Groups
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