DBMS > Adabas vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore 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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Software AG

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

1971

2007

2013

2017

Current release

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

configurable

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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