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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hughes Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

1971

2012

1994

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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 REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual 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

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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