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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. OpenEdge vs. SQream DB

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationApplication development environment with integrated database management systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.64
Rank#104  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.progress.com/­openedgesqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperSoftware AGAltibaseAxibase CorporationProgress Software CorporationSQream Technologies
Initial release19711999201319842017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202315585OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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