DBMS > Adabas vs. Databricks vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Databricks vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	84.24
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.databricks.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Databricks

SAP

formerly Sybase

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1971

2013

2010

1992

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

with Databricks SQL

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
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Natural

Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions and aggregates

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

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

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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