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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Heroic vs. OpenEdge vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Software AG

Spotify

Progress Software Corporation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2014

1984

2011

2017

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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