DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.risingwave.com/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Google

RisingWave Labs

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

2010

2022

1987

Current release

1.2, September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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)

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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