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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.harperdb.io

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Chris Davis

HarperDB

DataJaguar, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2006

2017

2015

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON data types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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)

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

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