DBMS > Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. RethinkDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. RethinkDB vs. Tibero

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rethinkdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

rethinkdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

2009

2003

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

range based

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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