DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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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	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2012

2006

2012

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

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

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

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

yes

Relationships in Graphs

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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