DBMS > Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and 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

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

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

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2013

2015

2009

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

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

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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