DBMS > Adabas vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

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

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.hawkular.org

nsdb.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Percona

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2014

2017

2015

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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 REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

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

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Re-evaluating legacy: Should you leave Adabas (and Natural) behind?
30 May 2024, ITWeb

Is it the end of the road for Software AG after selling its integration business to IBM?
12 January 2024, diginomica

IBM to buy Software AG’s integration businesses for €2.1 billion
19 December 2023, RCR Wireless News

IBM buys 50-year-old Software AG's enterprise tech units for €2.13B in cash
18 December 2023, The Register

Software AG sells data platform to IBM for €2.1bn
18 December 2023, Financial Times

provided by Google News

Waiting for Red Hat OpenShift 4.0? Too late, 4.1 has already arrived…
5 June 2019, DevClass

provided by Google News

Percona Delivers Open Source In-Memory Storage Engine for Percona Server for MongoDB
20 August 2016, insideBIGDATA

Is database-as-a-service in Percona’s future?
23 May 2022, VentureBeat

FerretDB goes GA: Gives you MongoDB, without the MongoDB...
15 May 2023, The Stack

The essential guide to MongoDB security
2 February 2017, InfoWorld

How to deploy the Percona database performance monitor with Docker
20 September 2022, TechRepublic

provided by Google News

Share this page