DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. EJDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. EJDB vs. Riak TS 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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Softmotions

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

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++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X

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

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, limited

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

in-process shared library

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

none

Sharding

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)

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between datasets can be stored

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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)

yes

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