DBMS > Adabas vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.gridgain.com

www.h2gis.org

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

CNRS

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

2007

2013

2014

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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