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DBMS > Adabas vs. Dgraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Graph Engine vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Dgraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Graph Engine vs. NSDb

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldgraph.iowww.featurebase.comwww.graphengine.ionsdb.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.featurebase.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperSoftware AGDgraph Labs, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsMicrosoft
Initial release19712016201720102017
Current release2022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGo.NET and CJava, Scala
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
.NETLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoSQL queriesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnoyesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistayesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSynchronous replication via Raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)no infoPlanned for future releases

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