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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB vs. openGemini

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward SciorePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.jaguardb.commaxdb.sap.comwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperSoftware AGAmazonDataJaguar, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Huawei and openGemini community
Initial release19712007201519842022
Current release3.3 July 20237.9.10.12, February 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++Go
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesNatural.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnonoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistanone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accounts

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