DBMS > Adabas vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. SQL.JS

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Website

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

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Asthon Tate

Google

Chris Davis

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1971

1979

2010

2006

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Natural

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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