DBMS > Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

bangdb.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

Developer

Software AG

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2012

2010

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL like support with command line tool

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.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

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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 (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

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)

yes, using Riak Security

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