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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GeoMesa vs. MonetDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.monetdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Software AG

CCRi and others

MonetDB BV

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

1971

2014

2004

1999

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL 2003 with some 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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

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

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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