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DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Netezza

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#137  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resources
DeveloperSoftware AGAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockIBM
Initial release1971201420192000
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesNaturalJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononoyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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