DBMS > Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere 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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Google

Oracle

SiteWhere

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2014

2007

2010

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

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

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple authentication-based access control

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