DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

1971

2012

2014

2017

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

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

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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