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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Neo4j

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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

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.78
Rank	#82	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#341	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	55.84
Rank	#20	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

bangdb.com/developer

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2007

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.3, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handler

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 using Neo4j Fabric

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)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

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

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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