DBMS > Adabas vs. Ignite vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ignite vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

ignite.apache.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

2015

2010

2000

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.0.0, September 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Erlang

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

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 HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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