DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Software AG

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1971

2016

1989

2009

Current release

1703

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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