DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2012

1999

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

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
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

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

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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