DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

boilerbay.com

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

memgraph.com/docs

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

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Boiler Bay Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2012

2002

2017

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, limited

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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