DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.esgyn.cn

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Esgyn

Initial release

1971

2012

2000

2015

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

yes

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

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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 control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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