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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1971201220102014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per database
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