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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB

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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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

hsqldb.org

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1971

2012

2001

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

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

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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