DBMS > Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FileMaker vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Baidu

Kinetica

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

1983

2018

2012

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9

7.1, August 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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