DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase.cn

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2016

2004

2000

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

Role-based access control

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