DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore 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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignite.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

1997

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

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