DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

Google

Percona

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2014

2008

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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