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DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Yanza

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperSoftware AGAltibaseFirebird FoundationMicrosoftYanza
Initial release197119992000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20162015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92yesyesno
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
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsPSQLTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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