DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2016

1992

2014

2020

Current release

2.1, December 2018

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

schema-free

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

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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.

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

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

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