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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. Ignite

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

In-memory caching system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cachelot.io

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Software AG

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2015

2008

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Memcached protocol

JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes (cache interceptors and 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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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