DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SQLite

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Name

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

phoenix.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

phoenix.apache.org

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

2016

2014

2016

2000

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1703

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

LDAP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

LDAP bind authentication

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