DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. LeanXcale

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.coveo.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.coveo.com

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Coveo

LeanXcale

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through Apache Derby

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

in Python

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

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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