DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is 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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.oceanbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1971

2012

2009

2010

1984

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.3.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

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

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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