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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrigoDB

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

bigobject.io

www.hawkular.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Role based authorization

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