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DBMS > Adabas vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Sadas Engine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Sadas Engine vs. TigerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sadasengine.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperSoftware AGHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release19712016201420062017
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20178.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononoyes
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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