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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Bangdb vs. STSdb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgallegrograph.combangdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bangdb.com
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBSTS Soft SC
Initial release19712014200420122011
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C#
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnono
Triggersnoyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonewith FederationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes (enterprise version only)no
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