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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. Neo4j vs. SAP HANA vs. Typesense

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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

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.54
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#215	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#9	RDF stores
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	42.70
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	39.10
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

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

allegrograph.com

neo4j.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

typesense.org

Technical documentation

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

neo4j.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Software AG

Franz Inc.

Neo4j, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1971

2004

2007

2010

2015

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.23, August 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

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

yes using Neo4j Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

yes

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