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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FatDB vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Software AG

FatCloud

Stardog-Union

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1971

2012

2010

2012

Current release

7.3.0, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

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 Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

via event handlers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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