DBMS > Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Altibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ

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Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

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

altibase.com

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

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

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Software AG

Altibase

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1971

1999

1989

2013

1994

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

ANSI SQL-92

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
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

stored procedures and stored functions

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

Java, SQL

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

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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