DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Google

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

2015

2014

2007

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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