DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Microsofts relational DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS info

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	4.65
Rank	#73	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.64
Rank	#45	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1059.72
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.40
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#2	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/sql/sql-server/sql-server-technical-documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2015

1989

1994

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

18.1 (Core), June 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Open Source info

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others info

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C info

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Master-slave replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Master-slave replication

selectable replication factor info

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency info

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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