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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Kinetica vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.14
Rank	#83	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#255	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#373	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kinetica.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

www.kinetica.com/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Kinetica

Oushu

Initial release

1971

2012

Current release

7.1, August 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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Specific characteristics

Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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