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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA 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.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­datastore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaCCRi and othersGoogle
Initial release1971201620142008
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePythonScala
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, details here
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayyesnonoSQL-like query language (GQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyesnousing Google App Engine
TriggersnoyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBigchainDBGeoMesaGoogle Cloud Datastore
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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