DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

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

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2017

1999

2010

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

JDBC
MySQL client

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

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

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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