DBMS > Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. Newts

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Name

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Software AG

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

Google

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1971

2010

2016

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

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