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DBMS > Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. KairosDB vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Blueflood vs. KairosDB vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlblueflood.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmemgraph.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikikairosdb.github.iomemgraph.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSoftware AGRackspaceMemgraph LtdTobias Oetiker
Initial release19712013201320171999
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nosimple password-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsno
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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