DBMS > Adabas vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.intersystems.com

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Baidu

InterSystems

Kinetica

SAP

Initial release

1971

2018

1997

2012

2010

Current release

0.9

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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