DBMS > Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Software AG

Google

Microsoft

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1971

2010

2015

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

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

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

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

using Azure authentication

yes

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