DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

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
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

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

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source 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

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

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