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DBMS > Adabas vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSoftware AGFoundationDBcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release19712013201120152009
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaysupported in specific SQL layer onlynonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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