DBMS > Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server 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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Software AG

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

TempoIQ

Initial release

1971

2013

1987

2012

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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