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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HyperSQL vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hsqldb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Software AG

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1971

2015

2001

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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