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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. EsgynDB vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTSDB vs. TempoIQ

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

www.kingbase.com.cn

opentsdb.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Esgyn

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2015

1999

2011

2012

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Standard with numerous extensions

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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