DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

dgraph.io

www.graphengine.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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 (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

yes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

yes (enterprise version only)

Planned for future releases

yes

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