DBMS > Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Interbase vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Interbase vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Cambridge Semantics

Embarcadero

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2018

1984

1980

2015

Current release

2.3, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

23c, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

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