DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PieCloudDB

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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

relex.ru

Microsoft

OpenPie

Initial release

1971

2012

1990

2016

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Transact SQL

user defined functions

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, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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