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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldb.apache.org/­derbywww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19711997201420152015
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20234.0.5, February 20243.3 July 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlang
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalJava Stored ProceduresnonoErlang
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accountsno

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