DBMS > Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. TempoIQ vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. TempoIQ vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Software AG

Google

Machbase

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2014

2013

2012

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

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