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DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memgraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessServerless Time Series DBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcassandra.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)memgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHyprcubd, Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release197120082017
Current release4.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
gRPC (https)Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objecttoken accessUsers, roles and permissions
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Alibaba Cloud PolarDBCassandraHyprcubdMemgraph
Specific characteristicsPolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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