DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Pinecone

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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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Google

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

1971

2016

1979

2010

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Java

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Access rights for users and roles

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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