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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperSoftware AGRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release19712013200520152016
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangErlangJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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