DBMS > Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TigerGraph

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Software AG

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1971

2017

2012

2021

2017

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

yes

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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