DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Ultipa

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

opentsdb.net

rethinkdb.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Ultipa

Initial release

1971

2012

2011

2009

2019

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

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
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

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