DBMS > Adabas vs. dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MySQL vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. MySQL vs. OpenQM

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Widely used open source RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.dbase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Software AG

Asthon Tate

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1971

1979

1995

1993

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V3, October 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for MySQL: Fully managed MySQL, deployable in the cloud of your choice, with seamless integrations and lightning-fast setup.

Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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 queries

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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)

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.