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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine vs. Tibero

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

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	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.tdengine.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1971

2010

1992

2019

2003

Current release

17, July 2015

3.0, August 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

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 and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

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

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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