DBMS > Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cachelot.io vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Score	0.00
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Score	0.62
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	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cachelot.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Software AG

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1971

2015

2013

2015

2006

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes, limited

yes

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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