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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. Hypertable

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformIn-memory caching systemFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcachelot.iofauna.comwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.com
DeveloperSoftware AGFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release19712015201420042009
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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)noIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesno

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