DBMS > Adabas vs. Axibase vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Axibase vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Software AG

Axibase Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Splice Machine

Initial release

1971

2013

1984

1980

2014

Current release

15585

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

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
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Yes, via Full Spark 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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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