DBMS > Adabas vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Software AG

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2008

1995

2009

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

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