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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. DolphinDB vs. MaxDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

DolphinDB, Inc

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2018

1984

1987

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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