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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Brytlyt vs. Databricks vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. VelocityDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbrytlyt.iowww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousevelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.databricks.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSoftware AGBrytlytDatabricksIBMVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19712016201320142011
Current release5.0, August 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyeswith Databricks SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Python
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLuser defined functions and aggregatesPL/SQL, SQL PLno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"BrytlytDatabricksIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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