DBMS > Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sadasengine.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

Developer

Software AG

CCRi and others

Circonus LLC.

SADAS s.r.l.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2014

2017

2006

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

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

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in Lua

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

depending on storage layer

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

depending on storage layer

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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