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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Initial release

1971

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.1, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

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

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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