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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. STSdb

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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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

galaxybase.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2012

2017

2011

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

user defined procedures and functions

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

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

Relationships in graphs

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

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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