DBMS > Adabas vs. FatDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FatDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rethinkdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Software AG

FatCloud

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2012

2010

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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