DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. JSqlDb vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. JSqlDb vs. Memcached

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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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	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Konrad von Backstrom

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2018

2003

Current release

1703

0.8, December 2018

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

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

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

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

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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