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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle 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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Software AG

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2008

2007

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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