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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. OpenTSDB

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Esgyn

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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