DBMS > Adabas vs. Dgraph vs. Faircom DB vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Dgraph vs. Faircom DB vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Widely used RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2016

1979

1980

2015

Current release

V12, November 2020

23c, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Planned for future releases

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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