DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. YDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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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	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

FatCloud

Yandex

Initial release

1971

2012

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (YQL)

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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