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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. InfluxDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus vs. Vertica

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.openpie.comprometheus.iowww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbprometheus.io/­docsvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSoftware AGOpenPieOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release1971201320152005
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.1, January 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageGoGoC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like query languageyesnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnonononoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyes infoby FederationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)simple rights management via user accountsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"InfluxDBPieCloudDBPrometheusVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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