DBMS > Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2010

2011

2007

2013

Current release

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

.NET

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

based on HBase

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

optionally

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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