DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

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

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

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