DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. STSdb vs. Trino vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. STSdb vs. Trino vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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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	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trino.io

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

STS Soft SC

Trino Software Foundation

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1971

2012

2011

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2018

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

.NET Client API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

Synchronous replication

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

depending on connected data-source

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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)

SQL standard access control

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