DBMS > Adabas vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Sqrrl vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Sqrrl vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

www.speedb.io

sqrrl.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Software AG

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Speedb

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1971

2014

2020

2012

1985

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

configurable

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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