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DBMS > Adabas vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.hawkular.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.kinetica.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperSoftware AGGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatKineticaPercona
Initial release19712017201420122015
Current release7.1, August 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesNaturalGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and roles

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