DBMS > Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Chris Davis

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1971

2006

2001

2010

2022

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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