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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgallegrograph.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19712014200420092019
Current release8.0, December 20233.2.0, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangClojure
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedyes
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 languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispErlangno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanonewith FederationSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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, using Riak Security
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