DBMS > Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Software AG

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

2016

1995

2019

1992

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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