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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Dragonfly vs. Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. Quasardb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ehcache.orgignite.apache.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSoftware AGDragonflyDB team and community contributorsTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software Foundationquasardb
Initial release19712023200920152009
Current release1.0, March 20233.10.0, March 2022Apache Ignite 2.63.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCacheHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalLuanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Password-based authenticationnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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