DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. EXASOL 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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.exasol.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Exasol

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2018

2000

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

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

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

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

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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