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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

bangdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

1971

2015

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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