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DBMS > Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB vs. openGemini

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperSoftware AGChris DavisSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Huawei and openGemini community
Initial release19712006200119842022
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.9.10.12, February 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalnoJava, SQLyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accounts

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