DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Dgraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Dgraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

dgraph.io

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

2016

2013

2014

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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 query language

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

LDAP

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Planned for future releases

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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