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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. CrateDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	4.56
Rank	#71	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#197	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#12	Search engines

Website

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

crate.io

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

Developer

Software AG

Crate

Initial release

1971

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes, but no triggers and constraints

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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