DBMS > Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

1971

2010

2016

2013

2015

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

.NET

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

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

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

yes

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

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)

yes

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