DBMS > Adabas vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

IBM

Percona

Initial release

1971

2012

2010

2017

2015

Current release

2.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Active-active shard replication

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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