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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Interbase vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Software AG

Embarcadero

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

OpenPie

Initial release

1971

1984

2005

1984

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Interbase Change Views

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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