DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

geospock.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GeoSpock

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

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 API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

by using Terracotta Server

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by using Terracotta Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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