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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Amazon

Initial release

1971

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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