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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Software AG

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Baidu

Initial release

1971

2016

2008

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

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

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

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