DBMS > Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1971

2010

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2016

2017

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

.NET

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Transact SQL

user defined functions in Python

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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