DBMS > Adabas vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Sqrrl vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Sqrrl vs. Teradata

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sqrrl.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Software AG

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1971

2014

2020

2012

1984

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Multi-source replication
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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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