DBMS > Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

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

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

rocksdb.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2014

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

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

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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