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

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. Tibero

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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

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

rethinkdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1971

2012

2009

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

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

planned for next version

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

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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