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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. AntDB vs. Axibase vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

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

altibase.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Axibase Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1971

1999

2013

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

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
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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

yes

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

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

Users and groups

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