DBMS > Adabas vs. Cassandra vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Cassandra vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Trino

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cassandra.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

trino.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Circonus LLC.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2008

2017

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via views

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

depending on connected data-source

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

SQL standard access control

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