DBMS > Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

rocksdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Software AG

Clickhouse Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

1971

2016

2013

2003

1985

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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