DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2016

2000

2010

2015

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

yes, limited

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 API

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Role-based access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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