DBMS > Adabas vs. EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.exasol.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Software AG

Exasol

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2000

2018

2013

2014

Current release

0.9

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Lua
Python
R

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

via hugegraph-spark

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more

Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more

Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more

Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more

News

What is DevRel at InfluxData
21 May 2024

An Introductory Guide to Grafana Alerts
16 May 2024

What to Expect When You’re Expecting InfluxDB: A Guide
14 May 2024

Introduction to Apache Iceberg
9 May 2024

Converting Timestamp to Date in Java
7 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.