DBMS > Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Software AG

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

informationpartners gmbh

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1971

2009

2015

2009

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JCache

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optional

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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