DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

druid.apache.org

kx.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

code.kx.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1971

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1995

1993

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.6, May 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

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

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

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

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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