DBMS > Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. SAP IQ

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Spatial extension of H2

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2gis.org

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Software AG

Google

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

2010

2013

2012

1994

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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