DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Aurora vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ vs. WakandaDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tempoiq.com (offline)

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Software AG

Amazon

informationpartners gmbh

TempoIQ

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1971

2015

2012

Current release

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple authentication-based access control

yes

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