DBMS > Adabas vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Ignite vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

ignite.apache.org

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

1979

2015

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

ANSI SQL queries

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

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

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role based authorization

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

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