DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1971

2016

2003

2021

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

1.6.25, March 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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