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DBMS > Adabas vs. GridGain vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GridGain vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server vs. VoltDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Object-relational database and reports serverDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.gridgain.comrdf4j.orgwww.valentina-db.netwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperSoftware AGGridGain Systems, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Paradigma SoftwareVoltDB Inc.
Initial release19712007200419992010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.7.511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ODBCJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyesJava
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Security Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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