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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

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

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation info

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

1971

2012

Current release

2.3.6, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Natural

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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