DBMS > Adabas vs. MariaDB vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. MariaDB vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

quasar.ai

questdb.io

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.oushu.com/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Software AG

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oushu

quasardb

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

1971

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

2014

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

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
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Transient mode

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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