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DBMS > Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSoftware AGTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom CorporationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesParadigma Software
Initial release19712009197920151999
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V3, October 20203.0.0, September 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Erlangyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
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 ServerFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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