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DBMS > Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. JanusGraph vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. JanusGraph vs. searchxml

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeGraph DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.graphengine.ioboilerbay.comjanusgraph.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSoftware AGMicrosoftBoiler Bay Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aureliusinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release19712010200220172015
Current release4.00.6.3, February 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
.NETAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaClojure
Java
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistahorizontal partitioningnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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