DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KairosDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KairosDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	KairosDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.		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	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Multivalue DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.79 Rank #102   Overall #2   Multivalue DBMS		Score 0.67 Rank #233   Overall #20   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.html	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation			kairosdb.github.io
Developer	Software AG	Atos Convergence Creators		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	1971	2016	2013	1993
Current release		1703	1.2.2, November 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java
Server operating systems	BS2000 Linux Unix Windows z/OS z/VSE	Linux	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	yes	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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway	no	no	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	LDAP	Graphite protocol HTTP REST Telnet API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Natural	All languages with LDAP bindings	Java JavaScript Node.js PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	in Natural	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	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 cell division	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes, with add-on product Event Replicator	yes	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Atomic execution of specific operations	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)	LDAP bind authentication	simple password-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"	Atos Standard Common Repository	KairosDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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