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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Geode vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

geode.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2002

2015

2013

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

Access rights per client and object definable

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple password-based access control

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