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DBMS > Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Spatial extension of H2A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2gis.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftware AGBigObject, Inc.GoogleCNRSSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19712015201720132022
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesNaturalGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin NaturalLuayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infobased on H2
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes infobased on H2yes, based on authentication and database rules

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