DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store info

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	4.34
Rank	#70	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#162	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1346.39
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

alasql.org

franz.com/agraph/allegrograph

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

1971

2014

2004

1980

Current release

6.6.0, August 2019

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

MIT-License

commercial info

Limited community edition free

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

with Federation

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Master-slave replication
Multi-master replication

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts info

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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News

Triple Attributes
2 May 2018

Allegro "Knowledge" Graph News - March 2018
7 March 2018

AllegroGraph v6.4 - Now Available
23 January 2018

AllegroGraph News - December 2017
20 December 2017

AllegroGraph News - November 2017
2 November 2017

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