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DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBElastic
Initial release1971201220102009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyesno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)no

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