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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. NCache

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

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

bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Alachisoft

Initial release

1971

2012

2008

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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