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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Infobright 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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

greptime.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

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

Developer

Software AG

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1971

2015

2022

2005

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

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

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

Source-replica replication

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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