DBMS > Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

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

allegrograph.com

www.datomic.com

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Software AG

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2004

2012

2003

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

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

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

JavaScript

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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