DBMS > Adabas vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Software AG

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1971

2015

2013

2009

2012

Current release

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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