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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Badger vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Software AG

DGraph Labs

Baidu

IBM

Initial release

1971

2017

2018

1983

host version

Current release

0.9

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

Natural

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

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

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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