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DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 dataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldruid.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation and contributorsSAP, formerly SybaseMireoSTS Soft SC
Initial release19712012199420202011
Current release29.0.1, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL for queryingyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesNaturalClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
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-basedshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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.nononono
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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