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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.04
Rank#87  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#205  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#181  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#308  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devdocs.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperSoftware AGEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.KineticaAlachisoftOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19712019201220052015
Current release7.1, August 20215.3, September 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaErlang
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counterno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalLuauser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRErlang
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoNotificationsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)simple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"KeyDBKineticaNCacheRiak TS
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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