DBMS > Adabas vs. HBase vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HBase vs. searchxml 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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

2008

2015

2014

2009

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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