DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

InterSystems

Percona

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

2018

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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