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DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Titan

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release19712013201620172012
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.10, January 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC and C++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesNaturalAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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