DBMS > Adabas vs. GridGain vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. GridGain vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.gridgain.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Transwarp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1971

2007

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes (replicated cache)

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

Transaction concepts

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

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)

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Based on Windows Authentication

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