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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Geode

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Website

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

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

geode.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1971

2015

2013

2002

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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