DBMS > Adabas vs. FatDB vs. gStore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. FatDB vs. gStore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse 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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Software AG

FatCloud

IBM

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2012

2016

2014

2012

Current release

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

via applications

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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