DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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

Spatial extension of H2

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2012

2017

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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