DBMS > Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EXASOL vs. FeatureBase vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EXASOL vs. FeatureBase vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.exasol.com

www.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Software AG

Atos Convergence Creators

Exasol

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Initial release

1971

2016

2000

2017

2010

Current release

1703

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 queries

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

LDAP

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

cell division

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles 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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