DBMS > Adabas vs. Apache Impala vs. Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Impala vs. Cubrid vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

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

impala.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Initial release

1971

2013

2008

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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 DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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