DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle

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An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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with Oracle Spatial and Graph
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with Oracle Spatial and Graph
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since Oracle 23

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Website

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

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

Kinetica

Oracle

Initial release

1971

2017

2012

1980

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

7.1, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

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
MySQL client

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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