DBMS > Adabas vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

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

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1971

2014

1987

2010

Current release

16.0

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Java

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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