DBMS > Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Milvus vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Milvus vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

milvus.io

rethinkdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Software AG

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1971

2010

2019

2009

2008

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Market metrics

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