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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server 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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

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

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1971

2016

1989

1984

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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