DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. JanusGraph vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. JanusGraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

janusgraph.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

DataStax

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2016

2011

2017

2013

Current release

1703

6.8, April 2020

0.6.3, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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