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DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine vs. TigerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 graphGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.graphengine.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release19712012201520102017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++.NET and CC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linuxhosted.NETLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoyesyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
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 algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access control

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