DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Grakn vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Grakn 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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Grakn is a distributed, hyper-relational database for managing complex data that serves as a knowledge base for cognitive/AI systems.

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.58
Rank	#78	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.16
Rank	#32	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.22
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#199	Overall
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	3.66
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

grakn.ai

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

dev.grakn.ai/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Grakn Labs

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2009

Current release

0.9.5951, July 2019

1.8.4, November 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

console (shell)
gRPC protocol
Workbase (visualisation software)

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

substituted by the relationship feature

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

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

yes

users and table-level permissions

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