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DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 graphSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA 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
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sqltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBMireoApache Software Foundation
Initial release19712012202020142009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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, geospatialnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
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
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononono
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 algorithmFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Real-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesoptional
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 modenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)yesnono

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