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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Esgyn

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1971

2015

2020

2004

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

Standard with numerous 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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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