DBMS > Adabas vs. H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB 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

Spatial extension of H2

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.h2gis.org

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

CNRS

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2013

2017

2013

2009

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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)

yes

based on H2

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