DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

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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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1971

2012

1992

2016

2014

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

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

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

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

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