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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

In-memory caching system

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cachelot.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Software AG

Initial release

1971

2015

2013

2017

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Using Apache Lucene

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)

simple password-based access control

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