DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Adabas vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformdBase 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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release19711979201620171994
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20222.018.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturaldBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesno
Triggersnonononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatornoneMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"dBASEHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM Db2 Event StoreOracle Berkeley DB
DB-Engines blog posts

DB-Engines Ranking coverage expanded to 169 database management systems
3 June 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Modernize Natural and Adabas Workloads on AWS with Advanced's Application Transparency Platform | Amazon Web ...
1 April 2024, AWS Blog

State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist
12 April 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Deploying Software AG Adabas and Natural Workloads on AWS | Amazon Web Services
25 May 2021, AWS Blog

IBM buys 50-year-old Software AG's enterprise tech units for €2.13B in cash
18 December 2023, The Register

COBOL Is Taking Heat, but These Other Legacy Languages Could Burn You
1 October 2020, DevOps.com

provided by Google News

30 Years Ago: The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE
19 September 2013, eWeek

DBF File (What It Is and How to Open One)
6 April 2023, Lifewire

Microsoft Access 2016 Now Supports dBase Database Format
7 September 2016, redmondmag.com

A malicious document could lead to RCE in Apache OpenOffice (CVE-2021-33035)
22 September 2021, Help Net Security

Liam Brady's wife and their family life with three children
20 October 2023, Irish Mirror

provided by Google News

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, businesswire.com

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

HEAVY.AI Partners with Bain, Maxar, and Nvidia to Provide Digital Twins for Telecom Networks
16 February 2023, Datanami

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

Advancements in streaming data storage, real-time analysis and machine learning
25 July 2019, IBM

IBM Builds New Ultra-Fast Platform for Hoovering Up and Analyzing Data from Anywhere
31 May 2018, Data Center Knowledge

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an 'AI Database'
3 June 2019, Datanami

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

Why a robust data management strategy is essential today | IBM HDM
19 September 2019, Express Computer

provided by Google News

ACM recognizes far-reaching technical achievements with special awards
26 May 2021, EurekAlert

Database Trends Report: SQL Beats NoSQL, MySQL Most Popular -- ADTmag
5 March 2019, ADT Magazine

The importance of bitcoin nodes and how to start one
9 May 2014, The Merkle News

A Quick Look at Open Source Databases for Mobile App Development
29 April 2018, Open Source For You

Motorola A780 Linux based smartphone to have mobile database
14 September 2004, Geekzone

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Present your product here