DBMS > Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. LeanXcale vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. LeanXcale vs. TempoIQ

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

www.leanxcale.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Software AG

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FatCloud

LeanXcale

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2009

2012

2015

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JCache

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple authentication-based access control

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