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DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmliotdb.apache.orgblueflood.iodgraph.iowww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidgraph.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperSoftware AGApache Software FoundationRackspaceDgraph Labs, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release19712018201320162010
Current release1.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo.NET and C
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NET
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
Native API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistahorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infobased on Cassandrayeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication via Raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yesnono infoPlanned for future releases

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