DBMS > Adabas vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hive.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2013

1994

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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