DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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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	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

2015

1987

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

yes, limited

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Erlang

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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