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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Derby vs. Dragonfly vs. Quasardb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
quasar.ai
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsquasardb
Initial release19712014199720232009
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910.17.1.0, November 20231.0, March 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesyesnoSQL-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
JDBCJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresLuano
Triggersnonoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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