DBMS > Adabas vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL 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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.mysql.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

FairCom Corporation

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

1979

2017

1995

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.0

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary 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
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

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

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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 with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple authentication-based access control

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