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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

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

greptime.com

hazelcast.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Software AG

Greptime Inc.

Hazelcast

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1971

2022

2008

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Licensing and pricing models

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