DBMS > Adabas vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. ITTIA vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GridGain vs. Ignite vs. ITTIA vs. RocksDB

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

ITTIA L.L.C.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2007

2015

2007

2013

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes (replicated cache)

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Database file passwords

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