DBMS > Adabas vs. GBase vs. Machbase Neo vs. RRDtool vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GBase vs. Machbase Neo vs. RRDtool vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

machbase.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Machbase

Tobias Oetiker

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2004

2013

1999

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V8.0, August 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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