DBMS > Adabas vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Software AG

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1971

2014

2020

1999

Current release

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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