DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

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Name

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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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2015

2019

Current release

1703

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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

LDAP

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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