DBMS > Adabas vs. chDB vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. chDB vs. Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

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

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

dgraph.io

www.graphengine.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Software AG

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2023

2016

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

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

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Natural

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Synchronous replication via Raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

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