DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. openGemini vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. openGemini vs. TerarkDB

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.opengemini.org/guide

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Huawei and openGemini community

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1971

2012

2013

2022

2016

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

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

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Administrators and common users accounts

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