DBMS > Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.58
Rank	#78	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#251	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	113.63
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Website

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

allegrograph.com

www.brytlyt.com

cassandra.apache.org

titan.thinkaurelius.com

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Franz Inc.

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1971

2004

2016

2008

2012

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

0.9, October 2016

3.11.10 , February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

with Federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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