DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Google

SAP

Initial release

1971

2016

2015

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

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

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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