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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

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

galaxybase.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2017

2010

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

.NET and C

Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

.NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Role-based access control

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