DBMS > Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. Dolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ClickHouse vs. Dolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.dolthub.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Software AG

Clickhouse Inc.

DoltHub Inc

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

1971

2016

2018

2008

2016

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

Natural

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

currently in alpha release

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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