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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. NCache vs. Newts vs. Oracle Rdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2005

2014

1984

2019

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

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

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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