DBMS > Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

hsqldb.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Cambridge Semantics

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1971

2018

2001

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

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

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions and aggregates

Java, SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Automatic sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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