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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AllegroGraph vs. gStore vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. XTDB

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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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document 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	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

allegrograph.com

en.gstore.cn

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Franz Inc.

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2004

2016

2011

2019

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2, November 2023

23.3, December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

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, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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