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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.openpie.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Software AG

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

OpenPie

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1971

2009

2012

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.1, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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