DBMS > Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#104	Overall
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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Software AG

Clickhouse Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2016

2017

2010

2018

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.0.0, October 2023

V12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Natural

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Clojure
Java
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

key based and custom

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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