DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Microsoft

Qdrant

Initial release

1971

2012

2007

2016

2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

Triggers

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

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

Key-based authentication

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