DBMS > Adabas vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Search engine

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

1999

2010

2018

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Natural

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

SQLScript, R

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

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

yes

Role-based access control

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