DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.54
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#98	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#175	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#267	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Website

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

druid.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Event Store Limited

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2012

2014

2013

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

only 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 system

simple password-based access control

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