DBMS > Adabas vs. OpenQM vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. OpenQM vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase

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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

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

TempoIQ

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

1993

2012

1987

Current release

3.4-12

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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