DBMS > Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Software AG

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1971

2013

2009

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

simple password-based access control

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