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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. Graph Engine

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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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2010

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

.NET

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Role-based access control

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