DBMS > Adabas vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tibero vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tibero vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.78
Rank	#81	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#126	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

Developer

Software AG

EnterpriseDB

Google

TmaxSoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2005

2017

2003

2009

Current release

14, December 2021

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

standard with numerous extensions

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
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

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

by hash, list or range

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

planned for next version

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

PostgreSQL with added Security, Performance, DBA, Developer, and Oracle compatibile...
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Competitive advantages

Complete Postgres platform with enterprise-class Postgres, Management, Integration,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional, reporting and mixed workloads that need to integrate...
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Key customers

MasterCard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson, AT&T, Alibaba, Korea Telecom and...
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Market metrics

Listed in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013-2018 with over 4,000 customers.
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source and Commercial core based licensing.
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