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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. searchxml

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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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Windows

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.

yes

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

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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