DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

bangdb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.bangdb.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2012

1989

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

yes, limited

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

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 (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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