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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

druid.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1971

2012

2014

2011

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

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

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