DBMS > Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Warp 10

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

questdb.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

questdb.io/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Software AG

Google

quasardb

QuestDB Technology Inc

SenX

Initial release

1971

2010

2009

2014

2015

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

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

HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

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

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

through memory mapped files

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)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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