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

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. MySQL 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	1254.83
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

allegrograph.com

www.brytlyt.com

www.mysql.com

titan.thinkaurelius.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Franz Inc.

Brytlyt

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1971

2004

2016

1995

2012

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

0.9, October 2016

8.0.23 , January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

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

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

proprietary syntax

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Competitive advantages

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27 October 2020

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