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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Firebird vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing info

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.66
Rank	#68	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.55
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#288	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

www.firebirdsql.org

stssoft.com/products/stsdb-4-0

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Software AG

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

Current release

3.0.5, January 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source info

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less info

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support info

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API info

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC info

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

available via 3rd party products

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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