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DBMS > Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. RDFox vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. RDFox vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oxfordsemantic.techhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGCirconus LLC.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSAP, SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release19712017201719872010
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20186.0, Septermber 202216.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyes, in LuaJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarereplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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