DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

1971

2012

2009

2015

2005

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

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

JCache

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

R packages

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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 Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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