DBMS > Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

In-memory caching system

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

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

blueflood.io

cachelot.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Software AG

Rackspace

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

2013

2015

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

HTTP REST

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

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

based on Cassandra

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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