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DBMS > Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.graphengine.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSoftware AGCambridge SemanticsMicrosoftCirconus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19712018201020172014
Current release2.3, January 2021V0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux.NETLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes, in Luano
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users and rolesnono

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