DBMS > Adabas vs. EDB Postgres vs. etcd vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EDB Postgres vs. etcd vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Software AG

EnterpriseDB

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

1971

2005

2010

2015

Current release

14, December 2021

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

standard with numerous extensions

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

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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 Azure authentication

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