DBMS > Adabas vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2017

2010

2014

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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