DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

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

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Initial release

1971

1999

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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