DBMS > Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Software AG

Rackspace

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

1971

2013

2016

2010

2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Planned for future releases

Access Control Lists

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